by Joanne James13. January 2026 09:00
Today I'm sharing a card that uses all of the colours on Color Dare's spring palette - they were so pretty together I couldn't stop at 3! - and is perfect for Festive Friday's current challenge celebrating National Tulip Day (I chose yellow, orange and tulips from the board):
Today's card is full of the joys of spring in more ways than one - take a look:
Here's the low-down on today's card:
Sunshine and Tulips Coverplate - Today's card features one of my favourite things in the new spring Stampin' Up! mini catalogue: the Sunshine & Tulips Dies and specifically the coverplate die. I love it when a die can be used as the basis for a cardfront and this one is actually quite versatile. |There are lots of ways to layer the flowers and the leaves stand up for a little extra dimension too. For today's card I cut the coverplate in Blamy Blue, then diecut the flower leaves in Shy Shamrock and clued them to the diecut base. I backed each of the flower heads in one of the three other challenge colours to create my tulips, but you could equally stamp them or inlay a solid die piece - how you layer is really up to you. Once I'd glued the solid pieces of cardstock behind, I added the detail diecut into the aperture to give each flower more petal definition and detail.
Two-Tone Colour - I used one of my favourite tricks to achieve the darker toned colour for each of my tulip detail outlines: I coloured my cardstock with the dark Blend marker of the same colour to give a tone-on-tone effect. You could equally use both sides of two-tone cardstock if you prefer.
Sweet Sentiment - My card features a great label, also included in the die set, and a sweet sentiment from the co-ordinating stamp set:
I also added some ribbon tied with twine that picked up on the fresh colours of the flowers. I did look for some gingham ribbon, but alas I didn't have one in the right colours. Still pretty though, right?
Here is the visual summary of the key products used on today's project for you to pin for easy reference:
You can see all of my 'How To' summaries on my 'How To - Tips and Techniques' Pinterest board in case you've missed any.
Enjoy your day and I'll be back later in the week with another project. Until then, happy stampin'!
Stampin' Up! Supplies Used:
